FXX Announces 13-Day ‘The Simpsons’ Marathon With Exactly 600 Episodes
Back in 2014, FXX had the honor of hosting a marathon of every single episode ofThe Simpsonsever in honor of all the episodes being made available to stream for the first time ever. Since then, FX’s sister network has been running reruns non-stop from every season (except whatever season is current). Now FXX will be having another marathon of every episode ofThe Simpsonsever again, but this time it will be even longer, breaking the record it previously set as the longest-running marathon in TV history.
Get details onThe Simpsonsmarathon after the jump.
So why is FXX having this marathon again? Well,The Simpsonswill be entering its 28th season starting this fall, and four episodes into that season they’ll be airing their 600th episode with the latest Halloween-themedTreehouse of Horrorepisode. So to celebrate, FXX will be airing all 600 episodes ofThe Simpsonsin a 13-day marathon.
The Simpsonsmarathon will be at 12 pm ET onNovember 24th(that’s Thanksgiving Day for those keeping track), and it will run throughDecember 6th. That’s over 300 hours ofThe Simpsons. However, the 600th episode,Treehouse of Horror XXVII, will have already aired on October 19th before that. Also, in case you haven’t heard, that episode will bringHomer’s adversary Frank Grimes back from the dead.
FXX will again set the record for the longest-running marathon in TV history after previously setting it with their 12-day, 552 episode marathon of the animated series in 2014. But the next time they break this record, it might be to celebrate the end of the series.
The Simpsonswasrenewed for its 27th and 28th seasonsback in 2015, but the negotiations to get all the staple voice actors back were a little difficult,especially with voice actorHarry Shearer. There have been rumblings that the series could be coming to an end soon with showrunnerAl Jeanevenhinting at its conclusionsometime soon. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter last fall, he said:
Stopping at 30 seasons sounds like a nice round number. It would allow the show to comfortably surpass the all-time record episode number for a scripted prime-time TV series, which stands at 635 episodesGunsmoke, which ran from 1955 to 1975. IfThe Simpsonsdoes stop at 30 seasons, you can expect FXX to have another marathon in honor of the end of the series. But for now, fans should just enjoy all the new episodes ofThe Simpsonswhile they can.
The Simpsons28th season debuts onSeptember 25thon FOX while the marathon beginsNovember 24th.
